Fast Affiliate Ratings: These first national ratings, including demographics, are available at approximately 11 AM (ET) the day after telecast, and are released to subscribing customers daily. These data, from the National People Meter sample, are strictly time-period information, based on the normal broadcast network feed, and include all programming on the affiliated stations, sometimes including network programming, sometimes not. The figures may include stations that did not air the entire network feed, as well as local news breaks or cutaways for local coverage or other programming. Fast Affiliate ratings are not as useful for live programs and are likely to differ significantly from the final results, because the data reflect normal broadcast feed patterns. For example, with a World Series game, Fast Affiliate Ratings would include whatever aired from 8-11PM on affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone, following the live baseball game, but not game coverage that begins at 5PM PT. The same would be true of Presidential debates as well as live award shows and breaking news reports.

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SEVEN MONTHS INTO THE MURDER TRIAL AGAINST FORMER REALITY SHOW PRODUCER BRUCE BERESFORD-REDMAN, A “48 HOURS MYSTERY” INVESTIGATION REVEALS THAT THE CASE AGAINST HIM MAY BE FALLING APART

BERESFORD-REDMAN SAYS OF JAIL: “I’VE BEEN HERE ALMOST SEVEN MONTHS NOW AND I’VE BEEN ON TRIAL THAT WHOLE TIME, AND THERE’S NO EVIDENCE”

Bruce Beresford-Redman, a former reality show producer, has been on trial for the past seven months in Mexico for allegedly killing his wife Monica during a 2010 vacation to Cancun. However, an examination of the evidence by 48 HOURS MYSTERY suggests the case against him may be crumbling.

Jaime Cancino, Beresford-Redman’s attorney, tells 48 HOURS MYSTERY the forensics against his client have been flawed from the start. Cancino maintains some key evidence is missing and that other evidence is now contaminated with mold because it was not properly stored. “At the end of the day, he’s going to be free. I can assure you that,” Cancino says in an updated edition of 48 HOURS MYSTERY: “Fatal Episode, The Producer’s Story,” to be broadcast Saturday, Sept. 22 on the CBS Television Network (10:00 PM, ET/PT).

As 48 HOURS MYSTERY correspondent Troy Roberts reports, some of the government’s own key witnesses do not support the prosecutor’s theory of the crime. The coroner testified that Monica Beresford-Redman died nearly 18 hours after prosecutors had previously claimed, and the criminologist testified that he can find no link between Bruce Beresford-Redman and Monica’s death.

But the trial goes on. The chief prosecutor tells 48 HOURS MYSTERY that he’s concerned about protecting Cancun’s reputation as a tourist mecca. He adds that he wants to “punish” Beresford-Redman, saying his office will continue pressing for a conviction. “We have to work with what we have,” he says, and tells 48 HOURS MYSTERY they do have other evidence.

“I am looking around, waiting for someone to stand up and say, ‘Okay, well, we’ve got the wrong guy, you know, let’s get him the hell out of there,’” says Bruce Beresford-Redman in a new interview. “That doesn’t happen. It absolutely floors me.”

In 2010, Monica Beresford-Redman, 42, was found dead and naked in a sewer on the property of the Moon Palace Resort in Cancun. She’d been on vacation with her husband and their two kids.

He was questioned by Mexican authorities after his wife’s body was found. Although they kept his passport, he soon returned to California. He was later detained for a year in Los Angeles before being extradited back to Cancun last winter to face murder charges.

As Beresford-Redman’s trial continues, he tells 48 HOURS MYSTERY, “I’ve been accused of a really, really horrible crime. And I would like very much to have the chance to exonerate myself.”

48 HOURS MYSTERY will also broadcast a video the jailed father recorded for his children. “Hi, guys. I miss you very much,” Beresford-Redman says in the video. “I love you. Hopefully I’m coming home soon.”

Correspondent Roberts also talks to Monica’s sisters Carla and Jeanne, who are in a child custody battle with Bruce’s parents, and insist Bruce is right where he belongs – in jail.

48 HOURS MYSTERY’s “Fatal Episode, The Producer’s Story” is produced by Ana Real, Ira Sutow, James Stolz, Alec Sirken and Avi Cohen. Paul LaRosa and Joshua Yager are the supervising producers. Peter Schweitzer and Nancy Kramer are the senior producers. Al Briganti is the executive editor. Susan Zirinsky is the senior executive producer.

48 HOURS MYSTERY: “Fatal Episode, The Producer’s Story,” will air on Saturday, Sept. 22 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

Fast Affiliate Ratings: These first national ratings, including demographics, are available at approximately 11 AM (ET) the day after telecast, and are released to subscribing customers daily. These data, from the National People Meter sample, are strictly time-period information, based on the normal broadcast network feed, and include all programming on the affiliated stations, sometimes including network programming, sometimes not. The figures may include stations that did not air the entire network feed, as well as local news breaks or cutaways for local coverage or other programming. Fast Affiliate ratings are not as useful for live programs and are likely to differ significantly from the final results, because the data reflect normal broadcast feed patterns. For example, with a World Series game, Fast Affiliate Ratings would include whatever aired from 8-11PM on affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone, following the live baseball game, but not game coverage that begins at 5PM PT. The same would be true of Presidential debates as well as live award shows and breaking news reports.

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AFTER 18 YEARS IN JAIL FOR A MURDER HE SAYS HE DIDN’T COMMIT, DAMIEN ECHOLS TELLS “CBS SUNDAY MORNING” HE STRUGGLES TO ADJUST TO LIFE OUT OF PRISON

ECHOLS TELLS ERIN MORIARTY OF HIS EXPERIENCE IN JAIL: “YOU NEVER GO INTO A DEEP SLEEP – YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO BE READY FOR THE NEXT PERSON THAT’S GOING TO TRY TO HURT YOU”

Damien Echols spent 18 years in jail for a crime he says he didn’t commit. However, life on the outside isn’t as easy as most would expect. Echols, who along with two others was convicted for the murders of three boys, tells CBS SUNDAY MORNING WITH CHARLES OSGOOD he lives in fear.

“I can’t even describe what the fear is or where it comes from,” Echols tells 48 HOURS MYSTERY correspondent Erin Moriarty in an interview airing this weekend on CBS SUNDAY MORNING. “It’s just like this free-floating anxiety. It’s what – literally my life has become – is that I’ve been injected into this whole new world. And I’m having to learn everything.”

In August 2011, Echols and two other men were released as part of an unusual plea deal after spending nearly two decades in Arkansas prisons. Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jesse Misskelley are known as the West Memphis 3, and in 1993 were teenagers living in West Memphis, Ark., when they were arrested and convicted of murdering three boys.

“You never go into a deep sleep,” he says of his life in jail. “You always have to be ready for the next person that’s going to try to hurt you.”

There was no physical evidence connecting Echols or the others to the murders and over the years, considerable information surfaced supporting their innocence. It was attention from 48 HOURS MYSTERY and another documentary that helped draw attention to the case of the three men. The men were released after they pled guilty to the murders.

“It was a deal with the devil, but it was a deal I really didn’t have a choice to take if I wanted to live,” Echols tells Moriarty. “My health was going fast. I was dying in there. I knew if I didn’t take that deal, I was never going to live to see outside those walls.”

Moriarty talks with Damien Echols and his wife Lorri, whom he met and married in prison, about his stay in jail, life after being released, and his new book, Life after Death.

Moriarty’s full interview with Echols will air Sept. 16 on CBS SUNDAY MORNING (9:00-10:30 AM, ET) on the CBS Television Network. Rand Morrison is the executive producer.

Due to the nature of live sports programming the ratings for ABC, & FOX (NASCAR, & College Football) are approximate and subject to more than the typical adjustments in the final numbers. To further complicate matters, NASCAR’s start was weather delayed, and both sports programs started before primetime. See below for more information on these Fast Affiliate Ratings.

ABC was number one last night with adults 18-49 and total viewers.

On ABC, NASCAR scored a preliminary 1.3 adults 18-49 rating.

On FOX, Saturday Night College Football scored a preliminary 1.2 adults 18-49 rating.

ON CBS, reruns replaced scheduled U.S. OpenTennis, which was postponed due to bad weather.

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Last year there was some goofy TV media chatter that CBS was trying to breathe life into Saturday nights when it scheduled Rules Of Engagement there. That was nonsense, it was a warehousing move that didn’t happen since How To Be A Gentleman cratered so quickly, RoE never aired on Saturday, and premiered on Thursday instead.

The big change on Saturday night next Fall (although it’s already underway), and one I’m certain will get zero attention from the entertainment media, is the fact that Fox has given over the night to FOX Sports who’ll program various seasonal sports (baseball, college football, NASCAR) during the year with some new episodes of Cops sprinkled in from time to time. That extra money spent will likely give FOX a nice ratings margin over the competition (with the possible exception of ABC Saturday Night College Football in the Fall).

Due to the nature of live sports programming the ratings for ABC & FOX (College Football) are approximate and subject to more than the typical adjustments in the final numbers. See below for more information on these Fast Affiliate Ratings.

ABC was number one last night with both adults 18-49 and total viewers.

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Noor Almaleki in 2009 was a vivacious 20-year-old crossing a parking lot in suburban Phoenix when she and 43-year-old family friend, Amal Khalaf, were mowed down by a speeding SUV. The driver sped off though later was identified as Faleh Almaleki, Noor’s father. Noor died two weeks later. Khalaf survived.

As Troy Roberts reports in this updated edition of “A Family’s Honor,” the 49-year-old Faleh led police on an international manhunt, which ended in London. He was extradited to Arizona where investigators began unraveling the shocking details of what would lead a father to murder his daughter. Before the incident, the two had clashed over how the Iraq-born girl adapted to life in America. The father was concerned his daughter was too westernized and when she was 17, he took her to Iraq and put her into a forced marriage.

In 2011, Faleh Almaleki was tried for his daughter’s death, something his defense team claimed was an accident. However, prosecutors maintained it was a case of an honor killing – common in the Middle East, South Asia and North Africa – where a father believes a female has acted in a dishonorable manner and the only way to restore the family’s honor is to kill the woman. Roberts reports on the case and how a jury handled the controversial issue of honor killings.

“Playing with Fire” (9:00 PM ET/PT) is the first part of the double feature and focuses on Peter Van Sant’s report on a case that had the makings of a Hollywood film – two men dead in a burned car, The Playboy Mansion, greed sex, murder, a path to Wall Street and a Ponzi scheme.

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From 8-11PM, the XXX Olympicsaveraged a 5.0 among adults 18-49 from 8-11PM, down from a 7.8 for last week’s fast nationals and down 2% from a 5.1 fast national for the second Saturday night of the Beijing Olympics on August 24, 2008.

On CBS, the series finale of NYC 22earned a 0.5 adults 18-49 rating, up from last week.

Note: Sorry, we only have half hours ratings today. In the meantime, averaging these half hours into ratings for each show will often lead to errors.

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Share (of Audience): The percent of households (or persons) using television who are tuned to a specific program, station or network in a specific area at a specific time. (See also, Rating, which represents tuning or viewing as a percent of the entire population being measured.)

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Some 17 years after they were wrongfully convicted of murder, Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley, best known as the West Memphis 3, walked out of jail free men after agreeing to a rarely used plea deal. They did so after correspondent Erin Moriarty told their story on 48 HOURS MYSTERY and with the support of entertainment heavyweights, Johnny Depp, Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder and Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks.

In this updated edition of 48 HOURS MYSTERY, the second of back-to-back episodes on the night, Erin Moriarty talks with Echols and Baldwin about their experience, as well as Depp, who said, “it’s mind-blowing how it actually happened.”

As teenagers, the three were convicted of the brutal murder of three young boys from West Memphis, Ark. At the time, there was speculation the murders were part of a satanic ritual, and Echols, with a penchant for long hair and black clothes, became prime suspect for police.

But there was no evidence linking Echols to the crime. That is, until Misskelley spoke to police. He barely knew Echols, and his own attorney said he had the mental capabilities of a 5-year-old. Still, after hours of interrogation, he confessed to helping Echols and Baldwin kill the boys. The confession sent Echols to death row, while Baldwin and Misskelley were handed life sentences.

It was attention from 48 HOURS MYSTERY over the years and another documentary that helped draw attention to the case of the three men. Depp and others felt what occurred was a grave injustice. “There was no evidence… they were easy targets,” Depp tells Moriarty.

This updated report features the first TV interviews with Echols and Baldwin following their release.

“West Memphis 3: Free” is the second part of a double feature. The first, “Dark Side of Paradise” (9:00 PM, ET/PT) features Peter Van Sant’s updated report on the search for Don North, who vanished in January 2011 in the Caribbean paradise of the San Blas Islands. Van Sant talks to North’s nephew, Ezra North, and former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Don Winner, who teamed up to scour the Panamanian coast for clues to what happened to the world traveler. Did something horrible happen to the man who told friends he found his own personal Eden?

Due to the nature of live sports programming the ratings for FOX (UFC) are approximate and subject to more than the typical adjustments in the final numbers. See below for more information on these Fast Affiliate Ratings.

NBC was number one among adults 18-49 and in total viewers.

From 8-11PM, the XXX Olympicsaveraged a 7.8 among adults 18-49, though the telecast aired from 8PM to midnight.

Note: Sorry, we only have half hours ratings today. In the meantime, averaging these half hours into ratings for each show will often lead to errors.

Fast Affiliate Ratings: These first national ratings, including demographics, are available at approximately 11 AM (ET) the day after telecast, and are released to subscribing customers daily. These data, from the National People Meter sample, are strictly time-period information, based on the normal broadcast network feed, and include all programming on the affiliated stations, sometimes including network programming, sometimes not. The figures may include stations that did not air the entire network feed, as well as local news breaks or cutaways for local coverage or other programming. Fast Affiliate ratings are not as useful for live programs and are likely to differ significantly from the final results, because the data reflect normal broadcast feed patterns. For example, with a World Series game, Fast Affiliate Ratings would include whatever aired from 8-11PM on affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone, following the live baseball game, but not game coverage that begins at 5PM PT. The same would be true of Presidential debates as well as live award shows and breaking news reports.

Rating: Estimated percentage of the universe of TV households (or other specified group) tuned to a program in the average minute. Ratings are expressed as a percent.

Share (of Audience): The percent of households (or persons) using television who are tuned to a specific program, station or network in a specific area at a specific time. (See also, Rating, which represents tuning or viewing as a percent of the entire population being measured.)

Time Shifted Viewing – Program ratings for national sources are produced in three streams of data – Live, Live+Same Day (Live+SD) and Live+7 Day. Time shifted figures account for incremental viewing that takes place with DVRs. Live+Same Day (Live+SD) include viewing during the same broadcast day as the original telecast, with a cut-off of 3:00AM local time when meters transmit daily viewing to Nielsen for processing. Live+7 Day ratings include incremental viewing that takes place during the 7 days following a telecast.